I got quite the scare this month. Since 2009, I've maintained my anime and manga list on Myanimelist.net . It's great for the times I take a break from a show and can't remember where Ieft off. Two weeks ago, I was locked out of my MAL account.
I tried various likely passwords. No dice. Password recovery was useless as well since I couldn't find a place to notify MAL that my email address changed a while back. くそ！

Then on Wednesday, all of a sudden, I had no problem logging in. なんだよ これ？

Needless to say, I've exported both my manga list and anime list as soon as I logged into Myanimelist. I have 215 anime and almost 20 manga on my list. There's no way I'm going to rebuild that from scratch.

こわい です ね？

Perhaps I'll check out some of the other anime list building sites. Any recommendations from the peanut gallery?

It's not as nice as my retired one though. This Soul Eater: Meisters Anime Messenger Bag
is a serious contender. It has the entire gang: Maka & Soul, Death the Kid with Liz & Patty and let's not forget Black Star & Tsubaki:

Choices. Choices. I've only just begun. I'd like to see if there are messenger bag designs for some of the more current anime, such as Hyouka, Accel World, and Sword Art Online. One that's for the ladies. Lyfa and Asuna are cool characters, but I'd much prefer to have a bag with Kirito on it - or the main cast.

I'll have to check out my other main places for otaku gear: Right Stuf, CD Japan andJList. I've been meaning to check out AmiAmi too. See what I mean about so many choices?

As a musician, it's only natural that that I'd gravitate towards jingles and songs to help me study Japanese. This had me wondering, "Is there something like Sesame Street in Japanese?"
I didn't get far in my search. Once I found GenkiJapan.net last year, I called off my search. These earworms truly stick with you.I'm at the point that I launch into singing "10 Little Samurai" when trying to remember the counters for people and sound like an anime character when rattling off the colours in Japanese.

But don't take my word for it. Check out these free video study aids for yourself: